Hoodia is weight loss made simple. If you can control your appetite... you can control your weight.
Hoodia, or known by its full name as Hoodia gordonii, is a small cactus which grows wild in the Kalahari desert.
Despite its small, spiky exterior, the Hoodia gordonii is known for its amazing ability to suppress the appetite for those who eat it. By simply taking a cutting, peeling it and eating it, some people have experience near complete appetite suppression for up to 24 hours.
The BBC's experiences of Hoodia were incredible!
One of the most well known encounters with the hoodia gordonii cacti and its amazing ability to repress the appetite came when a reporting team from the BBC went over to the Kalahari desert...
“In order to see for ourselves, we drove into the desert, four hours north of Capetown in search of the cactus.
Once there, we found an unattractive plant which sprouts about 10 tentacles, and is the size of a long cucumber.
Each tentacle is covered in spikes which need to be carefully peeled.”
“…At about 1800hrs I ate about half a banana size - and later so did my cameraman.
Soon after, we began the four hour drive back to Capetown.
The plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we felt good.
But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent deception.
Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight and went to bed without food. And the next day, neither of us wanted nor ate breakfast.
I ate lunch but without appetite and very little pleasure. Partial then full appetite returned slowly after 24 hours.”
Tom Mangold, BBC
As you can see the hoodia gordonii literally stripped them of their appetite. The hoodia gordonii was SO effective, they pretty much didn’t eat for an entire day!
And it is for this reason that the hoodia gordonii has be processed into a series of highly effective
hoodia weight loss supplements.
The origins of Hoodia gordonii: the Sans Bushman tribe
The hoodia gordonii has been used for generations by the Sans Bushman tribe. The hoodia gordonii has been used for many medicinal reasons, but it is mainly used by the Sans Bushman hunters.
By eating a small amount of the hoodi gordonii plant, the tribe hunters were able to go without food and water for long periods of time, allowing them to concentrate and hunt for days on end.
Even to this day, the indigenous people of the Kalahari desert use the hoodia gordonii as a means to eliminate their hunger as part of their traditions.
How hoodia gordonii developed
Back in the early 2000s, the hoodia gordonii plant began to attract the attention of major pharmaceutical companies, who after a series of experiments were able to show that the hoodia plant did indeed help reduce the appetite to significant level.
Amazing clinical trial results!
"When the first human clinical trial was conducted, a morbidly obese group of people were placed in a "phase 1 unit", a place as close to prison as it gets.
All the volunteers could do all day was read papers, watch television, and eat.
Half were given Hoodia, half placebo. Fifteen days later, the Hoodia group had reduced their calorie intake by 1000 a day.
It was a stunning success."
Thanks to the amazing discovery, demand for hoodia went sky high, however due to the rarity of the hoodia gordonii outside of the African region, and the fact that it was difficult to cultivate outside of the Kalahari desert, 100% pure hoodia supplements were developed to satisfy the demand.
Supplements such as HoodiaPatch™™ have taken the world by storm, helping thousands of people to overcome their appetite and start to follow strict diets, in which they can reduce calorie intake by up to 2,000 calories a day!
How it works and why it makes YOU thin
The hoodia gordonii contains an active ingredient known as P-57, a molecule which is responsible for the hoodia’s amazing appetite suppression powers.
The P-57 molecule works because it mimics glucose. Glucose is usually derived from the foods that you eat, and when a certain levels of glucose reaches the brain, nerves react to inform your body that you are full.
P-57 is believed to about around 10,000 more active than glucose. When the P-57 molecule interacts with the brain, the brain sends out fake messages to the entire body, telling it that it does not need, or want, any food or water.
Dangers of hoodia
However there is one side effect of taking hoodia gordonii, and that is sometimes there have been cases when the hoodia has been too effective at reducing appetite.
There have a very small number of cases where people have used hoodia supplements to completely eliminate their need to eat, which can be unhealthy.
When taking hoodia, it is important to still follow a sensible diet and eating plan, and when you do, effective, steady and healthy weight loss will occur.
The best hoodia supplements available today
As time goes by, hoodia supplements have been steadily getting better and more effective.
Early hoodia products boasted that they contained pure hoodia gordonii, but often the hoodia itself would be of poor quality, and often filled with fillers and ineffective ingredients.
Eventually, even when a hoodia gordonii pill was legitimately filled with 100% genuine hoodia, the delicate freeze dried hoodia supplement would be destroyed in the stomach prior to effective digestion.
Hoodia patches are superior
However in recent years, it became evidentially clear that the most effective delivery system for the hoodia would be via a trans-dermal hoodia patches.
Trans-dermal patches, which have previously been used in medicinal applications (such as smoke prevention patches) can effectively deliver the hoodia directly into the blood stream, meaning that the absorption of hoodia is immediate, and will reduce your appetite SOONER.
Read more on why hoodia is best delivered to you as a patch.
